Bashkirtseff, Marie, a precocious Russian young lady of good family, but of delicate constitution, who travelled a good deal with her mother, noted her impressions, and left a journal of her life, which created, when published after her death, an immense sensation from the confessions it contains (1860‒1884).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bashkirs * Basil, St., The Great